this is an excellent thread!! 3 thing about the great plains thats has always amazed me. # 1 is how open it is you can ride for miles and miles and see nothing but open plains. #2 is how amazing it must have been for the first pioneers to see that wide open land and the opportunity and risk that went along with that.#3 is how amazing and intense the storms are.

The Storms............The thing my wife, "The Oregonian" dislikes most about living on the Plains....